The Swine Medicine Education Center – What Can It Mean to Your Practice

Dr. Josh Ellingson SMEC Staff Veterinarian 2011 Swine Disease Conference

Swine Medicine Education Center (SMEC)

• Joint Collaboration

– Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine

– AMVC

• Uniquely equipped

– Industry experts and leaders

– Wide variety of stakeholders and contributors

– Infrastructure of ISU CVM

– Commercial farm access

– Student housing

SMEC Board

• ISU CVM

– Dr. Locke Karriker (Director)

– Dr. Pat Halbur

– Dr. Butch Baker

– Dr. Darin Madson

• AMVC

– Dr. Daryl Olsen

– Dr. Jason Hocker

– Dr. Josh Ellingson (Clinician)

Mission

• To collect and synthesize the best practices for clinical swine medicine

• Translate and disseminate those practices to stakeholders who can apply them to improve swine health, ensure pork safety, maintain sustainability, and conserve resources

Goals

• SMEC

– To educate veterinary students from across the country, provide educational opportunities to swine production stakeholders, and to provide educational opportunities to the general public and media

• Curriculum

– To demonstrate live or digitally every clinical technique used in swine medical practice and clinical research trials and to provide students a place to practice those techniques

Courses Offered

• SMEC 480: Swine Production Medicine Clinical Rotation – Practice sample collection & farm evaluation strategies – Visit 5 commercial farms and workup cases

• With and without instructors

– Non-farm visit days • Rounds discussions about cases • Discuss other topics

– Pharmacology, Diagnostics, Statistics, etc.

• SMEC 401: PIGLAB – 2 day long version of SMEC 480 – Visit 2 commercial farms

• Sample collection practice • Case workups

Online Modules

• SMEC 402: Introduction to Swine Population Pharmacology

• SMEC 100: Swine Medicine Backgrounder

• SMEC 403: NAVLE Board Preparation Practice Exam

• A variety of instructional videos available focused on diagnostic, surgical, production, and practice techniques

– Oral Fluid Collection

Videos in Production Jugular bleeding

Laceration repairs Liver biopsy

Local nerve blocks Mandibular fracture repair

Mastectomy Natural service

Needle-free injection Oomphrectomy

Oral fluid collection Persistent frenulum

Pregnancy diagnosis via ultrasound Preputial prolapse

Prolapsed penis Pulling piglets

Rectal prolapse repairs Removing tusks Reviving piglets Septic arthritis

Snare Superficial LN biopsy

Tail bleeding Tonsil scraping Training a boar

Umbilical hernia Urethral obstruction

Uterine prolapse Vaginal prolapse

Venal caval bleeding Visceral torsion/volvulus

Anesthesia Ankylosis of priximal/distal interphalangeal joint

Artificial insemination Atresia ani/rectal strictures

Auricular bleeding Auricular catheterization

Auricular hematomas Bladder displacement

Caesarian section procedure Castration

Cecal cannula Clipping needle teeth

CSI for swine veterinarians Digit amputation

Ear notching Ear tagging

Endotracheal intubation Enteric collection for virus propagation

Epididymectomy procedure Euthanasia techniques

Gastric ulcers Gnotobiotic pigs

Hysterectomy Ileal cannula

IM/SQ/IV/IP/IN injection Inguinal/scotal hernia Intestinal obstruction

Intratracheal challenge Iron injection Joint lavage

Custom Training

• Capability and expertise to develop custom training modules to fit your needs

– For clients, customers, farm staff, technicians, etc.

– Can range from on farm training to online modules

• For example

– Custom training as part of Northern Iowa Community College’s veterinary technician program

Impact

• 4th Year Students

– 48 enrolled for the SMEC 480 course

– From ISU and 5 other veterinary schools

• Custom Training

– Reached 11 different countries

– Had 17 veterinarians come through the center

Field Research

• SMEC can help evaluate products, production practices, or other techniques for your clients or production system

– Research overseen by SMEC faculty

– Findings evaluated in comparison with all other published data and resources available

– Final product includes summarized findings delivered in a written report

Search and Summary of Current Evidence

• SMEC has unique resources and expertise

– To conduct reviews of research literature and all other sources of information

– To answer specific clinical questions

– Information is compiled and evaluated for relevance and scientific soundness

– Findings are summarized and returned

Future Plans

• SMEC plans to build a new state of the art production facility

– Facilitate basic and advanced technical training to swine health professionals

– Allow demonstration and comparison of cutting edge production and health technologies

– Showcase swine production, health, and welfare to the media and public

Funding

• Estimated annual operating budget is around $500,000

• Primary funding to come from industry resources and fees for delivery of instructional modules

• Opportunity to give back to the profession and support the industry

• Very appreciate of the support we have received thus far and continue to seek other partners

Innovative Agriculture

Solutions LLC

Summary

• SMEC serves as a resource for swine veterinarians

• Offerings allow practitioners to

– Stay current with the latest evidence based techniques and new technologies

– Review topics of interest

– Gain evidence to support diagnostic and treatment decisions

– Help educate clients

– Practice the highest quality medicine

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